SPHINX TRIBAL by user1918118

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal and combo-control strategy led by The Ur-Sphinx. The commander provides a constant one-mana cost reduction from the command zone, allowing you to cast high-impact Sphinxes ahead of curve. The early game focuses on deploying two-mana mana rocks and setting up value engines like Rhystic Study, Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign, or Tivit, Seller of Secrets. Once Tivit enters, it creates five artifact tokens that immediately fuel a game-winning infinite turn loop with Time Sieve. As a redundant win condition, the list features the compact Demonic Consultation plus Thassa's Oracle combination. A deep interaction suite of free countermagic, flexible exile removal, and one-sided sweepers protects your combo turns while keeping opposing threats in check. Although the deck runs several high-mana Sphinxes that can clog opening hands, its dense card draw, Eminence discount, and efficient backup lines provide strong resilience and lethal closing speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Azor, the Lawbringer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Mysteries
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Doomskar
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of the Chimes
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Master of Time
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign